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by Aerroon 1839 days ago
I think Swype could rely more on repeatable patterns. Eg if you're swyping in a straight line and want a letter included from that you should do a little loop on it. Eg with "our" I do a little loop on "u" and it doesn't pick "or" anymore. But it does then also pick "out"...

It should be way more accurate on the starting and ending characters. If I'm starting with "i" I'm not going for "orange".

One thing that frequently trips me up are names. I'm swyping a regular word and it thinks I want to use a name I've never used before.

2 comments

SwiftKey definitely notices if you do an extra movement on a letter—it's quite easy to differentiate between "to" and "too" with that strategy, even when it doesn't have the rest of the sentence for context.
> It should be way more accurate on the starting and ending characters. If I'm starting with "i" I'm not going for "orange".

The whole point of using a very-low-fidelity input method is that it's faster. How much care and effort are you planning to put into entering each word?